Recyclable plastic bags don’t pose the potential health risks associated with alternative bags. Hundreds of millions of petroleum based, “non-woven polypropylene” reusable bags are imported from China and other countries each year. These are, by...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $25 million in funding for plastics recycling research and development. The funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is part of the department’s Plastics Innovation Challenge, a comprehensive program...

An Aussie teenager has come up with an innovative solution to tackle single-use plastic packaging. Angelina Arora, has used prawn shells to create a plastic alternative that can decompose in landfill after a month or...

We know you have many questions about the coronavirus and we're going to keep getting you answers. One question that keeps popping up has to do with the new plastic bag ban. You've sent a...

UK-headquartered international packaging business DS Smith has opened its first recycling facility in the US in Reading, Pennsylvania. The new 43,000ft2 facility is located adjacent to one of the company’s paper mills and within a...

In November 2017, the BBC aired Episode Four of the Blue Planet II, “Big Blue,” which was seen by 14 million viewers. Presented by Sir David Attenborough, the episode bombarded watchers with footage of birds...

The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those “sustainable” shopping bags that politicians and environmentalists have been so eager to impose on the public. These reusable tote bags can sustain the COVID-19 and flu...

Produce, use, and throw away? No, better reduce, reuse, and recycle, says the EU. The paradigm of the current linear economic model could be coming to an end, replaced by a circular economy, a system...

A Washington State University research team has found that nanoscale particles of the most commonly used plastics tend to move through the water supply, especially in fresh water, or settle out in wastewater treatment plants,...

Tim Sykes talks to Alexander Baumgartner, CEO of Constantia Flexibles, to hear his frank thoughts about how the industry can move forward in the most sustainable manner.

The use of RESIN8 blocks creates demand for formerly landfill-bound mixed plastics and diverts plastic waste from otherwise escaping waste collection and going back into the environment. Braskem, one of the largest polyolefins producers in...

Chemicals company Clariant has teamed up with Lavergne, a producer of sustainable engineering resin from recycled ocean-bound plastics, to develop halogen-free, flame-retardant polyester compounds made from ocean-bound plastics. With the first grade already commercialized, the...

With brand owners under duress to reduce packaging and the use of plastics in particular, it is exciting to see how industry is responding to this environmental crisis. Daily, we see reports of new mono-material...

Charter NEX Films, North America’s leading independent producer of specialty films, proudly announces they have joined the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and their participation in the APR’s Demand Champions program. The APR is an...

Peter Fallat, Director of Global Design & Packaging at Hill’s Pet Nutrition, a Colgate-Palmolive company, discusses how flexible films fit into the drive for more sustainable packaging.

If you’re a Boisean who has recycled plastics in an orange bag recently, they probably didn’t go to Salt Lake City and get turned into diesel fuel as you were once told they would. Renewlogy,...

Across the world, sea turtles are swallowing bits of plastic in the ocean and often dying as a result. There are many theories about why sea turtles and other marine animals ingest plastic. Some people...

Business Planet heads to Austria to see how one large family firm is attempting to turn the problem of plastic pollution from packaging into a sustainable business opportunity. Today's modern economy would not function without...

German sportswear firm Adidas last month constructed a football field in the United States using 1.8 million plastic bottles and handed it over to a high school, earning accolades. It was an iconic demonstration of...

ACC reiterated its support for bipartisan policies aimed at modernizing our national recycling infrastructure in testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change. Keith Christman, ACC’s managing director...

Nothing perhaps defines our consumer-driven society of recent decades better than plastic. Its growth in production since the 1950s – largely driven by packaging – has been extraordinary. We now produce a staggering 300 million...

The United States has stood still as the European Union, Thailand, China and numerous other countries put in place national policies to address the growing plastics crisis threatening our oceans. Finally, the U.S. is poised...

Hefty is making a seemingly unlikely sustainability play with a campaign from new shop Periscope, Minneapolis, highlighting impact from an initiative through which the brand is helping people in select cities recycle hard-to-recycle plastics like...

The sources of food waste are varied and many, from the farm, to the plant floor, to the restaurant kitchen, to the consumer at home. The FWRA’s work is focused on the sources that...

Recycling specialist, Cromwell Polythene is expanding its operations following the purchase of Moorgreen Flexible Packaging from Duo Plastics Ltd. The sale was made to Vickers-Lee Holdings Ltd, owner of Cromwell Polythene, and will enable all...

Rachel Garcia did everything possible to reduce waste. There’s a personal conviction in her family to care about the environment. She and her husband, Daniel, packed lunches in reusable Tupperware for their two kids. In...

Coke, Pepsi and several other big plastic polluters are getting sued for lying about their products’ recyclability and clogging up the oceans with millions of tons of waste. A California-based environmental group, the Earth Island...

A group of leading manufacturers of paper and fibre-based food and foodservice packaging has launched the European Paper Packaging Alliance (EPPA). The alliance aims to find concrete solutions to increase recycling and to reduce carbon...